Humpback whales may be far more mobile during their breeding season than previously thought, with some travelling up to 6000 kilometres in search of mates.
of more than 26,000 individual humpback whales in the North Pacific taken by professional and amateur photographers since 1977.
One male had travelled 4545 kilometres in 53 days, leaving a group off Olowalu on the Hawaiian island of Maui to join a group of three whales off Isla Clarión in the Revillagigedo archipelago of Mexico in 2006. “Our first reaction was, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me!’” says Darling. But distances that seem enormous to humans may not be significant to whales. “They might just be travelling the ocean like it’s their own backyard,” he says. “This really changes the way we think about whales.”In summer months, observers had spotted both these animals in northern feeding grounds off the Canadian and Alaskan coasts.
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